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However, the only the E. Cox that played for the White Sox is Ernest Thompson Cox (E. T.). Now for the kicker, Ernest pitched in only one game for the White Sox in 1922 which was also his whole MLB career.

I have an Elmer "Dick" Cox in my player card database. He played in the PCL and also appeared in the e120 set. Thanks to this thread though, I have found out that I somehow skipped over the e126 set as the cards are not in my database.

If you are interested in the selling the E T Cox card, I'd be very interested.

I did a check on all the players in the set. Every player except 3 were in the majors between 1922-7. Cox only played in 1922, Charlie Grimm didn't appear until 1932 and Jamieson played from 1916-22.

You have a 10 year gap between players playing in the Bigs. Unless there is some sort of advertizing that says this et was issued in 1927, I don't see how that is possible, especially with Charlie Grimm in the set. The earliest it could have been issued was 1932, but then that doesn't explain what 2 players who had not appeared in the majors for 10 years are doing in the set.

and he identifies this card by name in the narrative as being E.T. Cox, who only pitched in one game.

Seems it is more likely Les, for although he only pitched in 2 games, at least they were in 1926--closer to the date of issue. Geroge is unlikely if he did not pitch until 1928.

As for the issue date, I thought Lew wrote that it can be traced to 1927 because Cobb and Speaker are shown for the new teams they just just joined that year.

E126 used a lot of old photos, as did other sets from that period of mid to late 20s. I remember seeing a card from one of those sets claiming to be Bill Terry when it clearly was Zeb Terry, with the same photo taken from the E135 Collins-McCarthy set-- a set issued several years before Bill Terry broke into big league ball.

Charlie Grimm card is the one that causes the dating problem since he never appeared in teh majors until 1932. How could he possibley have a card issued 5 years before? And there are no other Grimm's in MLB history.

Charlie Jamieson may have stopped pitching in 1922, but his career as an outfielder lasted another 10 years after that.

I will look in Lew's book (or anyone else can, as I'm sure everyone has a copy) to see the list of team affiliations for each player in the set. Again, though, I think he wrote that Cobb and Speaker were captioned with their 1927 teams, with whom they had not played prior.

As for the age of the player depicted, I defer. I'm so bad at guessing ages that you could tell me the guy was 18 or 48 and I'd go along with it.